Missile Launcher

[Hivemind]

yours: 5 ships
class 2:
4 missile-launchers (0/10, 10 MP)
class 4:
1 mothership (0/1000, 320 MP)

enemy: 3 ships
class 1:
1 penguin (4/1, 1 MP)
class 2:
1 destroyer (10/10, 8 MP)
class 3:
1 cruiser (100/100, 60 MP)
class 4:
buildings:
1 transwarp-network (0/100, 0 MP)
1 research center (0/3500, 0 MP)
1 shipyard (0/3500, 0 MP)

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your class 2 vs enemy class 1: V ^
you:
4 missile-launchers
enemy:
1 penguin

4 missiles launched
1 penguin vs 1 missile-launcher

losses:
you :
-
enemy :
-
score in this subbattle: 0

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your class 2 vs enemy class 2: V ^
you:
4 missile-launchers
enemy:
1 destroyer

3 missiles launched
1 destroyer vs 1 missile-launcher

losses:
you :
1 missile-launcher
enemy :
-
score in this subbattle: -10

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your class 3 vs enemy class 3: V ^
you:
6 missiles
enemy:
1 cruiser

5 missiles vs 1 cruiser
1 cruiser vs 1 missile

losses:
you :
6 missiles
enemy :
-
score in this subbattle: 0

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your class 4 vs enemy class 4: V ^
you:
1 mothership
enemy:
1 shipyard
1 research center
1 transwarp-network

losses:
you :
-
enemy :
1 penguin
score in this subbattle: 0

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summary:
your losses:
class 2:
1 missile-launcher
class :
:
1
class 3:
ships:
6 missiles

enemy losses:
class 1:
1 penguin

score: -10

[mackman]

The mystery of the missing missle........

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SBR A former -TO- empire member.

[blackmagic]

I don't see the problem. The missles wouldn't have done anything anyways. There wasn't enough of them. You need about 14 i think. Also, in the class 2, 4 missles weren't launched because the destroyer killed one of it before it shot.

Blackmagic of Shadowball
-Helper of the Universe

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From the deepest depths of the Galaxy, a new
power is born.
Trained assassins ....Who strike down all who
oppose.
MASTERHUNTERS
~Blackmagic of Shadowball~
The Leader of the Best Alliance EVER!!!

[An offer you cant refuse]

Negative.

It only takes 6 missiles to destroy a cruiser, putting out 102 attack points.

Since the cruiser had the initiative, he went first making one missile useless. One more missile would have destroyed the cruiser.

It appears that this fleet was designed to just take out that one cruiser, and a second fleet was standing by.

The entire attack was ruined because of the mysterious missing missile.

[An offer you cant refuse]

May I add that hivemind set up this attack perfectly? There is no way he should have lost.

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Al Capone's guns don't argue!

[limsky]

He did not calculate all probabilities. The illustration showed the probability that he could have lost. He is over confident. Should have sent 5 missile-launchers - just in case.

[doomstar]

Horrible bug indeed. You should have won the battle.

[An offer you cant refuse]

@ Limski-Untrue.

4 Missile Launchers verses one Penguin: Guaranteed all four missles launch, no losses.

4 Missile Launchers verses one destroyer: No matter what, at least three Missile Launchers will fire. If you have the initiative, all four will fire.

This means, unconditionally, no matter what, absolutely, I promise you, SEVEN missiles would be fired.

Seven missiles beat one cruiser, whether the cruiser has the initiative or not. There is no flaw in this setup whatsoever.

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"The Don of a new era"

[ This Message was edited by: An offer you cant refuse on 2004-06-24 20:29 ]

[ This Message was edited by: An offer you cant refuse on 2004-06-24 20:29 ]

[spacetrace]

indeed.. i will check this.

[admin]

it is really strange, i tried it on our testserver, and the bug is there....
we will find out

[Hivemind]

Maybe the missile was destroyed together with the missile-launcher that launched it?

[limsky]

I agree with Hivemind. The missile-launcher was destroyed before its missile was launched.
The details showed the result but not the sequence.

[An offer you cant refuse]

"4 missiles launched"

"3 missiles launched"

How can that be, when the missiles launched?????

They did get their shots off

[Hivemind]

That´s right. I wanted to say, that the already launched missile was destroyed together with the missile-launcher. I don´t know how the battlesystem is programmed, but i thought that the missing missile is somehow connected to the destroyed missile-launcher.

[admin]

i think this cannot be. the battleengine will put the missile directly in class 3

[admin]

we found the bug, it is fixed.
the same bug caused this strange words in the battlereport:

[admin]

the bug always occurred when a ship was created into an empty class (in this case there was nothing in his class 3 before and then there were created the missiles)